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[completelycrazy]

Hey everybody. Me and some people from the lab caught a host. This actually happened a couple weeks ago but we've uh been busy.

We were going to collect some data and do some testing and crap on it but it freaked out on us as soon as we got it into the cage. Between that and the info Nate and his team found I thought it was best to just uh send it straight over to Hope.

We did soooort of manage to communicate with it first? Not me. That was all Shigeru and Alphys. Seems like they can only communicate through like... Telepathic emotions? It's bizarre. Never seen anything like it. The gist of what we got is that they're scared of us. Go figure.

It was super thrilled when we took it to Hope though. They make these little squeaking noises when they're happy? It's great. It had a sort of godlike effect in that everyone could feel it being happy once we got it into the temple.

Anyway we let it go and I guess it's gonna try to spread the good news about Hadriel not being full of total assholes. If you see any more of these guys, don't attack them. They're only lashing out because they don't know what to make of us. Hell maybe the attacks will stop now that we've communicated with one.

Oh we do have a way to track down the host again should that become relevant. I'm not broadcasting more than that because no offense I don't trust everyone in town not to hunt down the hosts and mess with them. They've been through enough. But if you have good intentions stop by the lab and we might be able to help you out. We also still have all the equipment we used to catch them and if more come into town and start attacking people we could try to catch the hostile ones and point them in Hope's direction.

That's about it I guess? Wait no one more thing we took a selfie lol.

[He attaches a picture of the whole group huddled around a happy, flailing host. Hope and Sorrow are presumably standing off to the side and judging our weird human traditions but maybe that's just the way their faces look idk if they're actually there.]

So yeah hit me with questions if you have them. Everyone who helped out with this: feel free to weigh in too. Thanks guys.

[ooc: Big thank you to the players of the characters involved! That'd be George, Michael, Scott, Alphys, Cecily, Cashmere, Steak, Red Wine, Shigeru, Rosen, Sora, and Riku! Like Newt says above, all of you feel free to chime in with responses to this post!

Also, ICly Newt and the others don't yet know that Hope is gonna ask everyone to round up the hosts later in the month, but this is gonna be an open call to anyone who would like to get in on Host Capture Round Two once Hope does announce that. I won't do another network post for that, so feel free to use this post as incentive to hit up Newt/the rest of the team to join the party.

AND FINALLY here's the OOC info!]

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[evocation]

what the fuck
that's cute as hell
and fuck the null, seriously

[completelycrazy]

Yeah the whole project turned out way more adorable than anticipate lmao.
Better than dying though. I'll take cute.
Meeting one of these guys when theyre not ready to kill us made the stuff Nate found even more upsetting. Not that it wasnt before but like wow talk about unnecessary.

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[toiletseat_girl]

[George is looking somewhat smug]

I did it, I'm the one who caught it. [in a sing-song voice] But I'm not gonna tell you how.

[completelycrazy]

Lol you sure did. Thanks again George you really saved our asses there.
I won't give away your secret though.

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[toiletseat_girl]

It was my pleasure.
Though, after the squeaking, I kinda feel like an asshole.
And thanks, you never know when I'm gonna have to spring it on someone again.

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[synthedick]

[Finally, some good news.]

Good work, Doc. I'll let the Guard know. Let's hope that's one less threat we have to worry about for the time being.

[completelycrazy]

Thanks. I hope so too.
Idk what Hope's gonna decide for the longterm but it's good news for us that the hosts are still around. Maybe we can swap out after we deal with the Null.

[synthedick]

I assume he'll want to take them with us if we have to abandon ship. Or planet.

[redcosmedic]

Congratulations on the successful mission.

[completelycrazy]

Hey thanks. It was nice to finally have something go right yknow?

[redcosmedic]

Indeed, sometimes that feeling is rarer than it should be. But on the topic of nice things, once you're back to the Lab, I have a surprise for you.

[hot_mes]

[oh god he doesn't want to talk to Newt but this is so exactly what he needs HNNNNNNGH...

sucking it up while he's taking a break from trying to teleport back to the city as fast as he can.]

this may sound odd but was there any indication that any of them were injured or ill?

[aroundthecoroner]

[Luckily there are other people stalking this post who were there.]

Not at the time we found it, but it sort of injured itself in the process.
One of us healed it, though, so it's okay now.
It was definitely hurt in the past.
I wasn't around it as much as everyone else, but I got that much.

[hot_mes]

[oh man best of both worlds! Michael was there and he understands medical science. Tell him everything bro]

you were with it? I'm wondering mainly whether I can take Nate's files and your current observations and be able to treat any of them if they're still damaged from the Null.

[completelycrazy]

Uh youre right it does sound odd.
Why do you care?

[hot_mes]

professional interest. if I can reverse the surgeries and repair the hosts...well. I would do it.

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[hasitsthorns]

oh man look at that little thing
did it popcorn? you know the silly happy spasm that guinea pigs do when happy?
please tell me it did

[64th]

guinea pigs???

[completelycrazy]

No just a lot of squeaking and uh wriggling I guess. Im not sure how capable they are of vertical movement.

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[closerift]

Thank goodness not everyone in this city is of a constantly-murderous mindset.
Capturing this little thing will do some good. I'm sure of it.

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[closerift]

Do you think that we could get the picture on flyers to distribute throughout the city?

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[madamdirector]

You could feel it being happy?

[completelycrazy]

Yeah. It felt like one of the god events sort of? Like when theyre trying to generator emotions in us.

[Audio] A few days after Harlan's undeadening

[drabsolutelynot]

I was not aware you actually intended to share the picture....

[And also had been wondering if maybe he had managed to wiggle off frame in time. This answers that question]

[completelycrazy]

Dude whats the point of a selfie if youre not gonna smear it all over social media?